|
|
|
| Do You Know Your Students? |
|
|
Text book answers elicit the best marks, whereas creative thinking and unique responses are downgraded in most schools, even the so-called ‘enlightened’ ones.
Read on ... |
|
|
| Technology in Primary Classrooms |
|
|
Primary teachers often feel there is very little they can do to integrate technology into their curriculum. This is absolutely not the case, says VaReane Heese, a teacher in the US.
Read on ... |
|
|
| Primary Students on the Web |
|
|
When our district was considering a technology adoption, one school board member was definitely for the purchase of computers, but against placing anything but the older equipment at the primary level, recounts VaReane Heese, a teacher in the US.
Read on ... |
|
|
| Checklists for Children's Science Activities |
|
|
Educationists Wynne Harlen and Jos Elstgeest provide a means of self-evaluation for primary school teachers. They present three check-lists relating to children's science activities, their way of engaging with the activities, and the teacher's actions and interaction with the children.
Read on ... |
|
|
| The Language of a Child |
|
|
Children's use of language is closely related to the things they do with their hands and bodies and the objects they come in contact with. Words and action go together in childhood, writes eminent educationist, Professor Krishna Kumar.
Read on ... |
|
|
| The Tantrum Girl |
|
|
Building a rapport with a thunder and lightning three-year-old is not easy - but it is not impossible either, for a teacher.
Read on ... |
|